A commonly used form of role-playing in Gestalt Therapy, this technique focuses on exploration of self to help patients self-adjust by acting out two or more sides of a conversation using two chairs.
What is the Empty-chair technique?
100
1. Acceptance of personal responsibility (clients need to grow up).
2. Awareness in the here and now.
3. Dealing with unfinished business.
4. Dealing with the impasse.
What are the 4 Key Concepts of the Gestalt theory?
100
An existential/experiential, humanistic, phenomenological and process based form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility through the use of experiments.
What is Gestalt Therapy?
100
The way in which one perceives and interprets events and one's relationship to them. (Pictures)
What is Phenomenological?
200
What most Gestalt therapist practice TODAY. Which is a practice that is supportive, accepting, empathic, dialogical, and challenging way that emphasizes the quality of the therapist-client relationship.
What is Relational Gestalt Therapy?
200
A technique used to resolve the internal conflict of the 'top-dog' (should and ought to have) and the 'under-dog' (victim) by having a conversation of both sides in order to integrate and help the client accept their shadow sides.
What is the Internal Dialogue Exercise?
200
This is the theory that 'change' occurs when we become who we are rather than trying to be who we are not.
What is the Paradoxical Theory of Change?
200
To move from Environmental support to Self support by attaining awareness of WHAT they are doing and HOW they are doing it thus giving them greater choices and self acceptance.
What is the GOAL of Gestalt therapy?
200
The process of distraction, or fleeting awareness, that makes it difficult to maintain sustained contact.
What is Deflection?
300
Fritz and Laura Perls meet here while students 1926, but more importantly, it was through this association that Fritz Perls came to see the importance of viewing humans as a whole rather than the sum of discretely functioning parts.
What is the Goldstein Institute for Brain-Damaged Soldiers in Frankfurt, Germany?
300
The Gestalt technique that is most useful when a person attempts to deny an aspect of their personality is to have them play the opposite of what they are.
What is the Reversal Technique?
300
1. What do you want?
2. What do you feel?
3. What do you do?
4. What do you avoid?
5 What do you expect?
What are the 5 principle questions a Gestalt therapist uses to create awareness?
300
A theory grounded on the principle that people must be seen in their environment and are constantly changing. Defined as the entire situation of therapist, client and all that goes on between them.
What is Field Theory?
300
Gestalt is considered this type of therapy because it allows the client to EXPERIENCE their feelings in the here and now.
What is Experiential?
400
This book was first published in South Africa in 1946 and was subtitled "A Revision of Freud's Theory and Method".
What is ‘Ego, Hunger and Aggression’ written by Fritz Perls?
400
When we say out loud what we practice in our heads in order to gain acceptance, meet others expectations, approval. This fosters awareness of how far we go to gain approval.
What is the Rehearsal Exercise?
400
Clients have to grow up, stand on their own two feet and deal with their life problems themselves.
What is Paternalistic?
400
The point in therapy where the client avoids experiencing threatening feelings, experiences being 'stuck' and imagines something terrible will happen.
What is the impasse point?
400
People who use THIS Boundary Disturbance have a high need to be accepted and liked so they blur the difference between themselves and others to blend-in, avoid conflicts and they believe everyone experiences the same thoughts and feelings as they do.
What is Confluence?
500
To establish a relationship based on trust.
Ask if they are willing to try an experiment.
Give them the power to stop at any time.
Explore, Expect and Respect Reluctance.
Encourage the 'try on' new behavior attitude.
What is Preparing a client for Gestalt Therapy?
500
In Gestalt we do NOT interpreted or analyzed these like Freud. This is where the client acts out as if in a play all the roles which are in fact a part of the client.
What is Dream Work?
500
There is a foreground (figure) and a background (ground) of needs where the dominate need predominates awareness. During this process the therapist tracks how background needs emerge and become foreground.
(Being aware of suppressed needs).
What is the Figure Formative Process?
500
Freely making interpretations, asking 'why' questions, solving basic problems FOR the client, focuses on content and not process and never works in a group setting.
What is NOT Gestalt therapy?
500
Martin Buber purposed that the twofold nature of the world means that our being in the world has two aspects: the aspect of experience, and the aspect of relation.
-Aspect of experience: an object that is separate in itself, which we either use or experience.
Aspect of relation: is when we move into existence in a relationship without bounds.
(Good example: Namaste)